Posts tagged "body hair"

Dyed armpit hair is being touted as a hot new trend, but if a square morning news program has picked it up and most of their source images are from Tumblr, I'm going to assume this has actually been around for quite a while. KTLA News claims the trend started at a Seattle salon after a…

Public opinion of homosexuality improves by 0.86 percent per year worldwide. [The Daily Beast] The Ku Klux Klan says that it’s embracing racial diversity in order to work toward building a “strong America.” OK. [The Root] The Bath Film Festival has a feminist rating for movies this year. [Marie Claire] Nico Lang…

Yeah, I know that #notallmen are dum-dums about the way that female bodies and brains work, but I can produce evidence from the Internet and my inbox that enough are to merit some clarification. Seriously, some of the things humans with penises say about humans with vaginas are mystifying, especially when it appears that the…

Listen, it's not new for companies that make hair removal products and tools to focus their messaging on how "gross" body hair is, in particular on a woman. I don't think I've ever met a hair removal ad that made me feel great or even neutral about my body hair. But these new ads from…

OH MY GOD CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! The Material Girl, Madge, Esther, MADONNA has haaaaaair in her armpits and she's not ashamed! The most interesting thing to me about this photo is just how blonde Madonna's pit hair is. If I grew mine out this long, I think it would be really pretty dark. Doe…

See those dark, hairy gams and the suspiciously smooth feet attached to them? If a recent wave of internet stories are to be believed, those furry legs are actually a pair of stockings marketed to young women in China as an "anti-pervert" device. Some news outlets are reporting that the hairy stockings aren't…

Was anyone else really competitive about hitting puberty? When the other girls in my 6th grade class started wearing bras, I begged my mom to buy me one even though I had nothin' but beestings. And when I was one of the first to get my period, I felt like the Queen of some really…

The open joke in The Frisky offices is that while everyone else gets Brazilian waxes, I'm the proud queen of an au naturelle bush. I love my pubic hair — it makes me feel grownup and womanly and not like one of those gross hairless cats. I always trim a little bit, but that's the extent…

This ad from PETA is all kinds of disturbing and not just because it further promotes the idea that pubic hair is "unattractive" and a woman has to spend $$$ to trim and wax. No, PETA, this ad really looks like Joanna Krupa has the Lorax down there in her skivvies. Just ridiculous. [via Amanda…

Recently, a Sikh woman named Balpreet Kaur learned a photo of herself had been posted on the "Funny" section of the website Reddit, where users mocked her facial hair, outfit and turban. So she actually joined the comment thread to respond directly to the bullies to explain to them what's what. "I realize that my…

Fairest shmairest! Let's get real about beauty and body image. Mirror, Mirror is a column running every other Thursday on The Frisky. It is written by Brooklyn-based columnist, freelance writer, and bagel enthusiast, Kate Fridkis who also writes the blog Eat the Damn Cake. You can follow her on Twitter at…

Two things make Kathie Lee Gifford very upset: cannibalism and everyone dropping their bras and pants. I was not aware that bra-dropping is sweeping the nation, even during the heatwave, but I'll grant KLG that Alec Baldwin dropping his drawers on "Letterman" last night was weird. Really weird. Yeah, it changed the subject from…

Summer is just around the corner! Hair removal season has begun! In our “Getting Smooth Survival Guide,” we’ll be testing out various ways to defuzz your body parts, if defuzzing is something you choose to do. (No judgement if you’re happily rocking body hair. Do you, girl.) Since I've literally got the sparsest eyebrows ever…

Summer is just around the corner! Hair removal season has begun! In our "Getting Smooth Survival Guide," we'll be testing out various ways to defuzz your body parts, if defuzzing is something you choose to do. (No judgement if you're happily rocking body hair. Do you, girl.) First up, I allowed cameras to film me,…

Dear Abnormally Long Chin Hair, We've been intimately acquainted since I first noticed you my sophomore year of high school. I looked in the mirror one day before school and was horrified to find a thick whisker protruding from my chin. I might have cried. Growing up, I'd watched my mom curse her Mediterranean gene…

Dear Dating Mom: I am dating a guy who loves a hairy woman. He likes hair on legs, underarms, and the vagina. My problem is that I am the total opposite. I have been removing hair on my body since the age of 12 and I really don't think that I will feel sexy looking…

International crisis alert! Supermodel and all-around babe Natalia Vodianova dared to show up at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year ceremony night before last with legs that had not been shaved. I know! You can hardly believe it either. The Daily Mail dedicated an entire article to this body hair situatio…

A few months ago I was putzing around at work and Amelia emailed me to ask, "Hey, do you want to go with John DeVore and get shaved by a barber at The Art of Shaving and film it for the site?" And I thought, Oh dear! They've noticed the little 'stache I grow i…

Simply Irresistible

Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…

Oh look, it's hottest DILF alive, Ryan Gosling, making a rare appearance in public grabbing lunch in LA today. And what's that I see? In addition to his perfectly worn T-shirt (that collar is stretched just so), hoodie and leather jacket, the Gos is rocking a few faint letters on his knuckles, spelling out the…